Tuesday, March 20, 2007

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Call for Papers 21st Century Anthropology:Global Process & Power Conference in Oxford (fwd)

CALL FOR PAPERS21st Century Anthropology: Global Process and PowerConference28 - 29 June 2007University of OxfordKeynote speaker: Thomas Hylland EriksenConfirmed speakers:Ulf Hannerz - Keith Hart - Marc Edelman - Mohammad Talib - David GellnerPapers should fall into any of the following panels:1: Global Process. Representations and imaginations Media, migration, value chains and communications technologies2: World Institutions. Overpowering politics Global policy-makers and issues of representation, accountability and effectiveness3: Clashing Values. Moralities and animosities Conflicts arising from differing perceptions of religiosity and everyday value systems4: Contested Power. Civil Society and resistance Dissenting civic organization offers alternatives to state and international institutionsPlease send an abstract of 250 words to anthro21@herald.ox.ac.uk by March 16, 2007We are interested in engaging with the following questions:1. How can anthropology contribute to enhance the understanding of globalprocesses in the 21 century?2. What is peculiar about anthropological methods and analysis that make=it a distinctive discipline among other social sciences? How can we use thisdifference to contribute to public debates?3. How can anthropologists engage in 20 intellectual debates with other disciplinesand policy-makers communicating the theoretical depth our research achieves?4. Is a more accessible narrative the key to achieve a public presence?Conveners: Raul Acosta, Ana Santos, Sadaf RizviUniversity of OxfordWith the support from: Oxford University Anthropological Societyusers.ox.ac.uk/~anthsocInstitute of Social and Cultural Anthropologywww.isca.ox.ac.uk